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illinois help fund 28 and trains serving for high just corridors from chicago to milwaukee, chicago to st. louis, and in state from chicago to quincy and carbondale to the west into the south. those trains carry a record 2.2 million passengers last year. ridership growth in illinois has been exceptional, up more than 74% since 2006, and on the chicago to st. louis high-speed rail corridor, our passengers have increase by 224% since 2006. this increasing public demand is why we were proud to debut higher speed service in october on the dwight to pontiac segment of the st. louis to chicago high-speed rail corridor with secretary lahood and governor quinn on the train. and by thanksgiving we begin delivering that same 110-mile per hour experience to regular amtrak passengers every day. intercity passenger rail is already stimulating development on the corridor in cities like normal illinois where new multimodal station has attracted $200 million in related private investment and in joliet where construction of a new multi-mobile station is under way. plans also include new or improved sta
illinois help fund 28 and trains serving for high just corridors from chicago to milwaukee, chicago to st. louis, and in state from chicago to quincy and carbondale to the west into the south. those trains carry a record 2.2 million passengers last year. ridership growth in illinois has been exceptional, up more than 74% since 2006, and on the chicago to st. louis high-speed rail corridor, our passengers have increase by 224% since 2006. this increasing public demand is why we were proud to...
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but when danny inouye knew he was coming to chicago, he prepared place for them to stop and every one of them greeted senator inouye and his friend in a warm fashion. the story goes on from there and i won't go into the details, but he was a man who was always looking to help someone else. he told how this man who had been so brutally injured in the war, returned to hawaii and raised a family and was dan inouye's friend for life, as so many of us were. i think back as well about senator robert c. byrd's funeral in west virginia. mr. president, it was one of the hottest days i can remember. we were up there just baking in the sun at this memorial service for robert c. byrd. and i had intentionally picked a seat right next to danny inouye. i was taking off my coat. mopping the perspiration off, and i looked at him, in his dark suit, without a bead of sweat. i said, how do you do this? well, he says, the asian roots are important and they believe that mind over matter can achieve great things. and i can visualize myself sitting in a deep freeze now. i'm not hot at all. and i thought, thi
but when danny inouye knew he was coming to chicago, he prepared place for them to stop and every one of them greeted senator inouye and his friend in a warm fashion. the story goes on from there and i won't go into the details, but he was a man who was always looking to help someone else. he told how this man who had been so brutally injured in the war, returned to hawaii and raised a family and was dan inouye's friend for life, as so many of us were. i think back as well about senator robert...
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i mean, in chicago and its suburbs. it starts to add a. i think in cuba, a new dynamic has said and. i think obama opening of travel to cuba has totally changed the game for the way humans think about it. so you talk about large chunks of this electorate that are solidly democratic. and there's a solid base, so they gain has been and will continue to be about a fairly small margin of this electorate in key places. >> i'll duties as quickly as again. i'm still enjoying what happened in november of 2012, think about november 2016. a two word answer to your question, joe biden. and which is a segue over to your question. i will say the premise of your question terms of the obama administration not having a relationship with mexico and why firing, before my summer vacation i was the main latin advisor policy for three years. this is kind of an anecdote, but 34 countries that i was responsible for, i visited no country more than, more than -- other than 13 times. i visited one country 17 times for three and half years i was in the white house.
i mean, in chicago and its suburbs. it starts to add a. i think in cuba, a new dynamic has said and. i think obama opening of travel to cuba has totally changed the game for the way humans think about it. so you talk about large chunks of this electorate that are solidly democratic. and there's a solid base, so they gain has been and will continue to be about a fairly small margin of this electorate in key places. >> i'll duties as quickly as again. i'm still enjoying what happened in...
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and interestingly and coincidentally, he went to a veterans hospital in chicago where a person in the same ward with also grievous wounds was another american army, actually second lieutenant who had also been wounded seriously in italy, one bob dole. second lieutenant bob dole of kansas. and there began a friendship that lasted to this day. both gravely wounded, both dedicated more than ever to serve their country. both served with distinction. and the friendship, the bonds of friendship that were forged in that hospital between bob dole and dan inouye were unique and enduring. so dan inouye returned back to his beloved hawaii, and the story goes -- and i don't know if it's true or not. the story goes that dan inouye went down to join the veterans organization, and when he applied for membership he was told that the only members they took in that organization were caucasian. dan inouye decided that he wanted to continue to serve his country in the state of hawaii. he was the first united states senator from the state of hawaii and served longer than any senator in this institution. h
and interestingly and coincidentally, he went to a veterans hospital in chicago where a person in the same ward with also grievous wounds was another american army, actually second lieutenant who had also been wounded seriously in italy, one bob dole. second lieutenant bob dole of kansas. and there began a friendship that lasted to this day. both gravely wounded, both dedicated more than ever to serve their country. both served with distinction. and the friendship, the bonds of friendship that...
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i was in the navy serving then, watching that chicago convention. i was training before departing for vietnam. and it was strange, the juxtaposition of dan inouye's words and the hope and what he represented, juxtasuppose juxtae carnage in the streets, watching what seemed to be a country coming apart at the seams. but there was in young united states senator, this decorated world war ii veteran who spoke words that were chilling chilliy were prescient. he said that the trudy mention of the challenge facing us is a loss of faith. i do not mean simply a loss of religious faith. i mean a loss of faith in our country, in its purposes and its institutions. i mean a retreat from the responsibilities of citizenship. he went ton say famously, "this is our country. its future is what we, its citizens, will make it, putting aside hatred on the one hand and timidity on the other, let us grow fresh faith in our purpose and new vigor in our citizenship." those words, madam president, would serve us well as we think about the challenges we face right now here in
i was in the navy serving then, watching that chicago convention. i was training before departing for vietnam. and it was strange, the juxtaposition of dan inouye's words and the hope and what he represented, juxtasuppose juxtae carnage in the streets, watching what seemed to be a country coming apart at the seams. but there was in young united states senator, this decorated world war ii veteran who spoke words that were chilling chilliy were prescient. he said that the trudy mention of the...
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i always look forward to getting up to the chicago. we have a condo that overlooks lake michigan that i consider to be a great place to sit and just look at this beautiful lake and what happens on it whith a drinking a cup of coffee in the morning or a glass of wine in the evening. but, unfortunately, the health of our great lake michigan is threatened every summer when a coal-burning fe ferry boat dumps tons of coal into the lake all summer long. meet the s.s. badger. many people have fond memories of this boat steaming from ludington, michigan. but they need to be reminded of one thing. the s.s. badger is the last coal-fired ferry in the united states and there is reason it's the last one. every year based on the estimates given to us by the company, this boat dumps 650-plus tons of coal ash into lake michigan. 600-plus tons every single year. since 1953, that's the record. well, what does that do to lake michigan? in the 59 years the s.s. badger has been in operation, it has discharged a conservative estimate of 35,400 tons of coal
i always look forward to getting up to the chicago. we have a condo that overlooks lake michigan that i consider to be a great place to sit and just look at this beautiful lake and what happens on it whith a drinking a cup of coffee in the morning or a glass of wine in the evening. but, unfortunately, the health of our great lake michigan is threatened every summer when a coal-burning fe ferry boat dumps tons of coal into the lake all summer long. meet the s.s. badger. many people have fond...
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well as the phone to scare up some hard to find but desperately needed equipment which we found in chicago and shipped out right away in order to get the past service back up and running. that said there's a great deal to be done. president obama's request for disaster assistance seeks $60.4 billion for recovery and mitigation. department of transportation shared request,$.7 billion and of that $11.7 billion the majority portion directly support the effort to repair and replace the effect of public transit infrastructure and make it more resilience. these funds would be administered through the new public transportation emergency relief program and i want to thank you for your leadership in establishing this program just a few months ago. the administration requested in its budget, you may recall i testified on its behalf before the committee in may of 2011. we are grateful to the senate appropriations committee for responding to the president's request for aid under this program. the support of both committees was timely as the new emergency relief program strengthens the authority to pro
well as the phone to scare up some hard to find but desperately needed equipment which we found in chicago and shipped out right away in order to get the past service back up and running. that said there's a great deal to be done. president obama's request for disaster assistance seeks $60.4 billion for recovery and mitigation. department of transportation shared request,$.7 billion and of that $11.7 billion the majority portion directly support the effort to repair and replace the effect of...
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he now heads the university of chicago. but he basically wrote about the sort of two chinas or to the ages. he said there's sort of a doctor jekyll and mr. hide that's evolving to a doctor jekyll, which is the nicer of the two is the economic issue. the dr. height is the strategic asia, is the security agent. if you look at the economic asia there's heavy amounts of interdependence, everybody is investigating each other. $19 billion in regional trade which includes india. if you look at the security asia, national entity, orders dispute, historical grievances just are driving things apart and you're seeing real impact on these. in the has its own problems in the region across china region across china. region across chandigarh on the border dispute. if you look at this is something that you want to be deeply engaged in or do you look at this is basically something that you can ride along and freeload and let america and canada and japan handled? >> steve, your question -- >> i'm and freeload, by the way. >> that by the way
he now heads the university of chicago. but he basically wrote about the sort of two chinas or to the ages. he said there's sort of a doctor jekyll and mr. hide that's evolving to a doctor jekyll, which is the nicer of the two is the economic issue. the dr. height is the strategic asia, is the security agent. if you look at the economic asia there's heavy amounts of interdependence, everybody is investigating each other. $19 billion in regional trade which includes india. if you look at the...